FIRST FRUITS (CD)

Includes selections from Vespers and Matins, as well as Troparia and Kontakia for various feast days.

This collection of Byzantine hymnography in English may come as a revelation to Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. To the former, that the traditional tones and hymns can be rendered in the English language without a diminution of form and essence, and to the latter, that this tradition of sacred music need not be inaccessible to western listeners.